What was your first computer? Mine was a Commodore 64. I received it for Christmas in 1983 or 1984 when I was 8/9 years old. The keyboard was about 3 inches thick!

Commodore - mmmmmm... I still have a Commodore calculator from 1977 which works just fine.

Can't remember what was the first computer I used.

A Tandy 1400 LT. Yeah, that's right everyone. My first computer was a laptop! It had no hard drive and weighed like 20 pounds. But it was portable! Sorta.

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 that I built from a kit while I was in the Army. I decided to splurge and got the 16K ram module too! It plugged in to the TV and ran programs from a cassette.

Wow...mine Was a Gateway desktop, can not remember the model. It had Windows ME on it. That was when windows me first came out. It was about 7 or 8 years ago.

cms, your 64's keyboard was thick because that was actually the entire computer housed within it.

My family had a Commodore 64 as well as a VIC-20 (with tape drive!). But MY first computer was an Amiga 2000 with an 8Mhz Motorola 68000 lol.

Eventually I bought an Amiga 4000 (40Mhz 68040) with a Video Toaster. That was sweet. Then I bought a Flyer, and that was really sweet - the first broadcast quality desktop non-linear video editing system.

Then I learned Lightwave 3D on those systems (3D rendering package) which led to teaching myself C++ after school (high school) so that I could write Lightwave plug-ins.

Now I write C and C++ code for a living!

The first time I used a computer was in 1965 when I took a job with American Airlines as a departure processing clerk. Those were IBM computers and I had access to a lot of them.

My first computer that I personally owned was something put out by Radio Shack that needed a tape recorder. There were not too many programs back in those days.

I have used computers for most of my life and I still can't seem to figure them out.

My first was a commodore Vic 20 too, back in 1983, I was 13. I still have it and it still works. 5k of RAM, 3.5 K of that useable. It was about £250 back then.

WOW some of you are making a few of us pretty old first computer a gateway with "ME" as the operating system.

My first computer was a Tandy with a cassette tape as the Hard Drive then I got a Commodore 64. Then I remember the true first computer I ever got was an XT, the sale person told me it has a 40 meg hard drive that couldn't be filled if I tried. That's pretty funny since we all work with gig's now and my storage unit is a tera station.

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Originally posted by AnRyan:
My first was a commodore Vic 20 too, back in 1983, I was 13. I still have it and it still works. 5k of RAM, 3.5 K of that useable. It was about £250 back then.

I'm jealous!

I wish I still had any of my early systems now - I had a lot of fun with them...

The first in 1981 was an Apple II, followed later by an Apple III (learned visicalc on this one). I also got to lug around an Osborne "Portable" for a while.

Interesting days!

VIC-20 here too when I was 11. When I went to college I got a LASER XT (IBM compatible) with 1 meg of ram, a 20 meg hard drive, and 4 color CGA monitor!

Amazing how far things have come.

An Apple IIe or IIc (I forget). The first I actually bought was an Mac Classic in 1991. I saved up my shekels all year to come up with the $1200 or so it cost. Had a whopping 40 MB hard drive with 2 MB's of RAM.

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My first was also the Commodore 64 but I only used it for games. I got a PC when I started working but it is fun to think that I have more memory on my cell phone today than this first PC had :-)

IBM 286, 20 mb hd, 640k ram. Big as a boat anchor...matter of fact, it is a boat anchor.

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

I used to blast my way through Parsec and write some Basic code to make graphics of dancing monkeys.

Well I cant remember the brand, as it was pieced togeather by my stepfather back in 89. I will say that it had a 286 processor, OS was DOS...and you had to boot via floppy. No HD that I remember...floppy drive for everything.

Oh yah...it was also a green monocrome monitor *we had an amber in the closet, but dispite my begging...I never got it*

But on the bright side...at least it used 5.25" floppies vs the 8.75". I am just glad that it died before I invested the $$ to put in a 3.5" floppy drive or even a CD-Rom into the thing!

God it was a PoS. Word processing only through DOS and going to the ol' belt fed dot matrix printer.


P.S. I am still young...right?

My first computer was also a commodor 64 and a tape drive. God, I remember waiting forever for programs to load up from a cassette tape.

I didn't own another computer until I was in college. An Acer 386sx20 with 20 meg hard drive and 4 megs of ram. It was top of the line at the time.

My first introduction to the computer world was a Famicom my parents bought me and my brother back in 1990. You know, the one that has "1,000,000,000,000 games". We were living in Saudi Arabia back then and I remember they were training us how to act in case Saddam Hussein decided to raid any Saudi cities, and they used to distribute gas masks with instructions manual on how to use it. Heh.